ANT100Y1 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Sequential Hermaphroditism, Amphiprioninae, Herd Immunity
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Just like morphological variation in humans, we have a variety of gender and sexual identities and biologies. Genetically not simply one or the other deterministically. Biological sex is incredibly variable in plants and animals. Reproduce thru parthenogenesis (self-insemination) hundreds of species of animals. Once accidentally in a lab with a human. Sequential hermaphroditism: clown fish: change sexes throughout course of life. If dominant female is removed from group, the dominant male becomes female. Of spermatozoon carry x, half carries y. y is signal to develop male. Zw in birds: males are homogametic, zz, and female are heterogametic, zw. X0: many insects, males have only 1 chromosome, x, referred to as x0, and females have xx. Temperature-dependent: temp sensitive period during development (tsp) when sex is determined. Subfield; social, cultural, biologixal and linguistic anthro to understand factors that influent health and well-being: Cultural importance and utilization of pluralistic medical system. Infectious diseases: microbial agent (flu) death rates, pandemics, co-evolution of pathogens.
